If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.